FORBURY SCHOOL OLD BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16664, 8 April 1916, Page 5

FORBURY SCHOOL OLD BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB.

The annual report states that the season started with a tennis ladder tournament, in which the majority of the tennis-playing members took part. Later, a Yankee tournament was held, and some very pnjoyal?lo games were witnessed. Tho winners to date are: —Men's Singles, Mr Henry; Ladies' Singles, Miss Burrows; Combined Doubles, Miss Burrows and Mr Stoneham. Medals were donated to the club, and these' were awarded to Miss Burrows and Mr Ilendy. A learners' weekly dancing class was started, under the direction of Mr Smith, and it was tho means of increasing the membership. They were the means of adding between £3 and £4 to the funds of the club. Hie members hi r> for the year stands at 65, which is oonsidered very satisfactory. During the year tho club lost two of its officers—Mr Russell (member of committee) and Mr J. Kernohan (auditor) — on active service. The balance sheet shows a credit balance of £1 6s 9d, and the club has assets (piano, etc.) valued at £&1 15s.

—" Implosion " lias boon nominated by • bmarino engineers as a candidate for admission to the dictionary. An implosion is, we are told, the direct opposite of an explosion. Tho conditions' most favourablo for the production of an implosion exist at great depths in tho sea. At 2500 fathoms the pressure is, roughly speaking, a tout two and a-half tons to the square inch, a pressure that is several times greater than that exerted by steam upon tho piston of a powerful enaine.